If a Republican said this, we would never hear the end of it: We start with the president of the United States saying to America, “We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem.” And the idea that we’re just going to keep incarcerating, keep incarcerating–pretty soon, we’re not going to have a young African-American…

This is pretty scary and sad! I’m glad I didn’t know about this when we were on vacation. It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. Even though encounters with the microscopic bug…

That is being directed by J. J. Abrams: The cast of the Star Trek movie is taking shape and it’s not a bunch of big names. IESB.net says director J.J. Abrams — you might know him from such fine fare as Lost and Alias — is leaning toward Mike Vogel to play Captain Kirk. Vogel…

They even have t-shirts! Now that Jonah Goldberg has been unchained he is free to wax philisophical about the merit of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I prefer the Next Generation to the original — it seemed less naive, more technically grounded and I liked that the stories and relationships were ongoing. And for those…

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